Unmitigated Audacity Fox News, the unmitigated authority in open source technology, gave its viewers the gift of knowledge yesterday with its explanation of GitHub. Thanks Fox News! So, what’s the problem? Well, that’s simple. It seems that Fox News’ technology department –run by a motley crew of half-witted quick-study-types– failed to explain GitHub, and also…

In May we decided to switch over our WordPress theme to the GPLv2 “DW Focus” by DesignWall, and we’ve been very happy with the results so far. Our fork of DW Focus on GitHub has attracted some attention, and there are already a few additional forks that have been made. As of today we’ve just…

If you’ve been vising our site for awhile now (thanks, by the way), you’ve certainly noticed that things have been looking a little less…terrible, as of late. We’ve been working on turning “The Powerbase” into a more modern and aesthetically pleasing site, and the recent change of theme is a major step in that direction. While we’re…

It’s no secret that the tech world has historically been a boys club. Programmers, engineers, hackers, makers; the majority of them are all male. Any females who wander into the fray tend to be ostracized, or perhaps even worse, garner so much unwanted attention that they are treated more like a sideshow than a colleague. The…

When the MP3 format was unleashed onto the relatively young Internet, it was an absolute game changer. It finally made audio files small enough to practically distribute over the Internet, as high-speed connections were still a luxury item for the majority of Internet users. But while it was the MP3 format that made it possible,…

The White House has recently uploaded their GitHub page with the source code for both the iOS and Android versions of their mobile application. This comes only two weeks after releasing the source code for “We the People“, the online petition software the White House developed under President Obama to facilitate better communication with the…

Today, via a posting on their Tech Blog, Netflix announced the long awaited release of their failure inducing “Chaos Monkey” tool: Chaos Monkey is a service which runs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) that seeks out Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) and terminates instances (virtual machines) per group. The software design is flexible enough to…